Inner and Outer Evolution
GA 91 — 4 September 1904, Berlin
11. Inner Evolution Since Lemurian Times
Manas was outside, the animal body puts itself over it, closes with the human being to go out from the inside. The inside of man only begins to live since the third subrace of the Lemurian root race.
The first form in which manas shines forth is the mental image. As long as there is no [mental image], there is no inner life. The first of a reflection of the outside in the inside is the mental image - twenty million years approximately. The people who are left of them still have no memory and do not retain the received mental image.
In the Atlanteans, Manas shines forth within as memory. In the third race imagination; in the fourth race memory; in the fifth race the thinking power. In the sixth race manas will be not only thinking power, but intuition. The difference between memory retention and combining is something like this: beans lined up side by side [gap in transcript]
Sixth race man will have inner enlightenment, as average man; not just combine. Advanced humans already have the gift of inner truths dawning on them. What to some extent the poet has and to a greater extent the magician. Magician - Imago - Maya - Mahat. But whoever can create such a picture has not yet reached the highest level, but whoever can consciously give it lasting reality. The picture will really be there in the spiritual space. He is a creator, a productive one. - Raphael without hands: When he creates images, he has at the same time created something really existing.
The man of the third race forms ideas.
The human of the fourth race retains ideas.
The man of the fifth race not only retains [ideas], but combines them with each other.
The man of the sixth race already forms images, but they pass away with him.
The man of the seventh race forms images that already remain – evolution, involution.
Within the transition from the outer to the inner manas, what has taken its place? Love surrounds the manasic beings as manas used to surround the kamic beings, and love will be within the next round in the human being as it now surrounds him.
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Manas flowed in first; love will flow in next; now it is out. Love, manas, and then the human being. When it is floating behind like this, not yet able to approach the individual beings, it is called the "divine fire. This is also what those beings can reveal themselves as, who are one step above the human being. We find this again in ancient religions. Ten commandments in the burning bush. God, consuming fire. Zoroaster called fire the "divine entity.
The animal has kama within, manas externally. Man has kama-manas within him, that is manas in kama, externally love, that is fire, the divine, if we think of love as an entity.
In the next round, that which appears to man externally will be internally. Within himself will be the fire. The Divine will manifest itself in him as it is now manifesting itself without. And that which is still one stage higher, that is what we call in occultism the Word. If we consider that the fire is a manifestation which acts on others, is, as it were, the mediator, we can imagine that the fire is the calm manifestation. If we mental image that the divine essence first manifests in the fire, we have a manas become fire, that is the divine precept.
If we imagine the still higher making itself known, we have the Word penetrating one step lower, into Kama or the flesh. Word made flesh - the Christ.
First: Man originally: kama.
Second: Manas takes possession of Kama.
Third: Fire will manifest in Manas.
In the further round: the word in fire. When the fire makes itself known in Manas, divine thinking arises. If the fire makes itself known to him, his thought becomes divine. Divine thought was the Ten Commandments - if we characterize in occult way the commandments. The fire has become thought - commandment.
Now, when man is purified and cleansed within this race so that he can receive the fire, in the next round he receives the Word, and that penetrates down to Kama. The thought has become permeable. The word has become kama or flesh, It is exactly the same as for an earlier stage the commandment.
In the fifth round, the total humanity will fulfill the commandments. In the sixth round, the total humanity will be comrade of Christ. But the Word made flesh is Christ.
Now we must imagine that everything that is slowly happening is anticipated in humanity by individual human entities. So that the revelation of the commandments was an anticipation of that which is slowly being fulfilled. So that the Word made flesh is also an anticipation, fulfilled even more slowly.
Fifth round: All mankind will follow the commandments.
Sixth round: total humanity will live with Christ.
What is predisposed in Christianity as the first spark is the great perspective for the sixth round. That is now preparing within our round.
Lemurian 4 + 3 =7 - 2 begins mental image.
Atlantian 7
Aryans 7
Sixth root race 7
Seventh root race 7
From the [fourth] Lemurian subrace emerges the first Atlantean. The four first Atlantean races are repetitions. From the fifth Atlantean race emerges the first Aryan. Five Aryan ones have to prepare. We are the last repeaters. From the sixth Aryan race the sixth root race is formed. From the seventh subrace of the sixth root race comes forth the seventh root race.
What is formed is manas. Namely, during the Lemurian time the mental image, during the Atlantean time the memory, during the Aryan time the thinking power. During the sixth race the intuition, during the seventh race the imagination.
So that when the seventh race has reached its goal, that which lives in man is imagined. Then the physical globe has reached its goal. The physical globe passes over into the astral globe. Manas has brought it to make images that live in the spiritual globe; the whole has become astral; the images will absorb the whole mineral; and man will be able to absorb into himself the mineral kingdom what was formerly segregated.
When the rupa-globe comes, there will no longer be an actual mineral, but plants and animals would have it within them; the images will now be able to absorb into themselves the mineral from the plants.
Arupa globe - there is absorbed by the imagination all that is mineral in the animal. - Now man has digested all that is mineral and enters the pralaya.